‘How am I in this war?’: New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire’s Ukraine dilemma (edition.cnn.com)
(CNN) — Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled...
A man bought a metal detector to get off the couch. He just made the "gold find of the century" in Norway. (www.cbsnews.com)
At first, the Norwegian man thought his metal detector reacted to chocolate money buried in the soil. It turned out to be nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls in what was described as the country’s gold find of the century....
Famed tech journalist (Walt Mossberg) deletes X account with epic rant at Elon Musk (www.independent.co.uk)
Veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg announced on Tuesday he was deactivating his X (formerly known as Twitter) account, saying Elon Musk’s takeover of the site turned it into a “cesspool.”...
Over a year after 'Dobbs,' abortions have increased nationwide (reason.com)
New data from the Guttmacher Institute indicate that U.S. abortions have increased after the fall of Roe v. Wade, not decreased....
Biden will nominate a former Obama official to run the Federal Aviation Administration (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden will nominate a former Obama administration official to lead the Federal Aviation Administration after his first choice withdrew March after running into opposition from Republican senators....
US applications for unemployment benefits fall to lowest level in 7 months (apnews.com)
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week fell to the lowest level in seven months with the labor market seemingly resistant to the higher interest rates put in to place to cool hiring....
Doctor arrested after guns, drugs and prostitutes found in yacht raid (www.independent.co.uk)
Scott Burke, 69, faces drug trafficking and weapons charges after arrest...
‘That ’70s Show' actor Danny Masterson gets 30 years to life in prison for rapes of 2 women (apnews.com)
PR Firm Has Been Paying Rotten Tomatoes Critics For Positive Reviews (www.screengeek.net)
Trump tells judge he may try to move Georgia election interference case to federal court | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Deputy leader of Sudan's RSF says US sanctions 'unfair' (ptv-news.com.pk)
Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft "Makeshift Biohazard Suits" (futurism.com)
On Friday, an international Delta flight bound for sunny Barcelona was forced to U-turn back to its starting point, Atlanta, for an exceedingly rare air travel horror: a passenger had suffered diarrhea throughout the plane’s aisle so extensively that completing the flight was deemed untenable....
Complex cave rescue looms in Turkey as American Mark Dickey stuck 3,200 feet inside Morca cave (www.cbsnews.com)
Turkish and international cave rescue experts were working Thursday to save an American speleologist trapped at a depth of more than 3,280 feet in a cave in southern Turkey after he became ill. Mark Dickey, 40, became sick during an international expedition in Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains, in the Mersin...
US lawmakers visiting The Hague say Russian President Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine (apnews.com)
Members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine. Their comments came a day before they were scheduled to meet with the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court....
District attorney in Georgia election case against Trump and others seeks protections for jurors (apnews.com)
The preemptory step by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis comes after the grand jurors who returned the 41-count indictment against Trump and 18 others were subjected to harassment when their information was posted online. It’s a reflection of the highly polarized feelings surrounding the criminal cases against the...
ABCNews: Biden rejects proposed conditions for plea deal for 9/11 defendants (abcnews.go.com)
Pennsylvania inmate escaped by crab-walking up a prison wall, video shows (www.npr.org)
A murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof in a breakout that wasn’t detected by guards for a full hour, authorities said Wednesday as the killer eluded a widening manhunt for a seventh day....
Oakland man’s Instagram posts come back to haunt him in federal court (www.mercurynews.com)
Defendant has been major target by gang investigators...
Inside the Fight to Forcibly Out Transgender Students in California (www.vice.com)
Boston.com: Man tried to travel the Atlantic in a hamster wheel, U.S. says. Again. (www.boston.com)
11-year-old boy to stand trial for mother's murder, motive suspected to be VR headset (abcnews.go.com)
An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy accused of murdering his mother has been ordered to stand trial....
A football coach who got job back after Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field has resigned (apnews.com)
A high school football coach in Washington state who won his job back after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field resigned Wednesday after just one game back....
The lawsuits seeking to keep drag queens legal, explained (www.vox.com)
Republicans are losing their fight to ban drag — at least for now.
How the number of abortions in each state has changed — in the places it was legal this year (www.nbcnews.com)
New research indicates that the number of abortions increased in the first half of 2023 in most states where they were legal this year....